Combined extension-tie and marking-tag.



PATENTED JUNE 7, 190.4. G. KERSTBN. COMBINED BXTBNSIONTIB AND MARKING-TAG.

APPLICATION FILED DEU. 26, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented June *7, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.

COMBINED EXTENSION-TIE AND MARKING-TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,172, dated June 7, 1904.

Application filed December 26, 1903. Serial No. 186,748. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, CHARLES KERsTEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Extension-Tie and Marking-Tag; and I do hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms` a full, clear, and exact specification, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to improvements in a combined tie and markingtag for laundry and similar use; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction, as hereinafter lirst fully set forth and described and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already referred to, which serve to illustrate this invention more fully` Figure l is a rear View of my combined tie and marking-tag. Fig. 2 is a front view of a fragment of the same, and Fig. 3 an elevation of a bundle tied and marked with this improved device. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the tie and marking-tag detached.

Like parts 'are designated by corresponding numerals of reference in all the figures.

The object of this invention is the production of a simple, efficient, and cheap device for tying bundles to be passed into and through a laundering establishment and at the same time marking the pieces for identification and the work to be performed thereon. To accomplish this end, I construct the combined tie and marking-tag of a sufficient length of cord l of proper thickness, which cord I pass through a metallic disk 2 and then tie the two ends of said cord by a' knot 3. Then I form in this double cord a series of intermediary knots 4, spaced a reasonable distance apart, thereby dividing the entire length into a series of sections or loops 5, as clearly indicated in Figs. l and 4.

rIhe metallic disk 2 I prefer to produce from any metal not liable to rust or readily oXidize when exposed to soapsuds, water, and airsuch as brass, bronze, aluminium, &c. and form the same circular in contour for the objeethereinafter to be referred to. Centrally in this disk there are located two apertures 6, so spaced as to leave a bar 7 in the said disk, through and around which the cord 1 is passed, 5 5 as shown in the drawings. In the face of this disk or tag there are placed one of the various identification marks-such as Special, Mending, No starch, New neckband, Domest-ie, Gro back, Starch stiff, 00 Rough dry, Sac., or numerals 1, 2, Sac., thus indicating to the operators that the work on the respective bundle is to be rough dried or starched stiff, @zc-whereby mistakes are entirely avoided without requiring any time for marking the bundles, thus saving time and considerably facilitating the Work.

To tie up a bundle, the cord l is wound around the same and the disk passed through one of the sections or loops 5 in the cord where 70 the nearest knot therein will hold the bundle tied together,it being understood that the cord l is of sufcicnt length and that when small bundles are to be tied the cord may be wound two or more times around the bundle before 7S the disk is passed into the nearest loop 5. The disk 2 is by preference made circular in contour; but it may also be made oval or polygonal to enable it to be readily passed into the loop, while a square one cannot be so readily SO inserted int-o the said loop 5.

Having thus fully described this invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- As an improved article of manufacture, a 35 laundry-tie and marking-tag combined, consisting of a circular metallic disk having two semicircular apertures divided by a cross-bar as described, a single cord passed over said bar and through said apertures and having its ends tied by a knot, a series of knots at suitable intervals in said cord uniting the two Strands and forming loops therein eonsider- In testimony that Claim the foregoing as ably longer than the diameter of the tag, Said my invention l have hereunto set my hand 1n tag having' upon its face imprints serving' as the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

identiiioation-maiks indicating the Work to he CHARLES KERSTEN. performed and further identiiieation-marks Attest: indicating ownership, as and for the object MICHAEL J. STARK,

set forth. AL STARK. 

